Israelis set a new standard in hilarity

[MikeWaters]

Biden making a big trip to Israel, big push for peace talks, is literally sitting down and talking with the Palestinian delegation when Israel announces 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem.

It's very clear that the Israelis are not interested in peace. They are only interested in victory.

So have you a segment of American liberals who support Israel, and the far right. In other words, the cooperation of the immoral and the stupid.

I don't think I've ever had less confidence in America than right now. From top to bottom. America is chock full of lazy idiots.

[MikeWaters]

Of course, the apologists are out in full force.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100316/D9EFDS500.html

If Israel gets a free pass on this, we might as well not even try to help with the peace process. Because the entire thing is a joke.

[MikeWaters]

http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...-israel/37548/

Obama trying to break up the Israeli govt. coalition.

I like the part at the end where it says Obama doesn't think Netanyahu is very bright.

[MikeWaters]

additional viewpoint on why Israel did what it did.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...=hp:mainpromo2

Further, they had to know that the blowup would imperil resumption of the “proximity” talks, where the two parties would talk to each other not directly but through the United States. But the failure of these talks is exactly what these Israeli right-wingers desire. They wanted to scuttle the talks. To them, the talks could lead only to Israeli concessions on the West Bank and ultimately East Jerusalem itself. They wanted to nip this threat in infancy before it gained any momentum.

[MikeWaters]

Andrew Sullivan:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.co...splutters.html

Goldberg, I believe, used to be an Israeli detention/prison guard during the first intifada.